I am running a script that gives me the following output:

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$VAR1 = {};
>>> Oper Sys: linux
>>> Platform: RedHat
>>> Hostname: host1

I am so far not able to figure out why the data is missing. This exact code was working and all I did to it was enclose it into a sub and add an if statement ($platform_in).

This script is getting quite long now so I am only adding the code for the call and the sub. If you want to see additional code I will post it all

my @nicdata = networkInfo($platform);

sub networkInfo {
    my $platform_in = shift;
    my ($nics, %nic);
    if ($platform_in =~ /RedHat/) {
        $nics = qx |/sbin/ifconfig| or die("Can't get info from Linux 
+ifconfig: $!\n");
        my @nics = split /(?<=\n)(?=\w)/, $nics;
        for (@nics) {
            my %nic;
            ($nic{device}) = $_ =~ /^(eth\d)\s/
                  or next;
            if (/\binet addr:([\d.]+)\s.+?:([\d.]+)\s.+?:([\d.]+)/) {
                $nic{ip}    = $1;
                $nic{bcast} = $2;
                $nic{mask}  = $3;
                #print "Device: $nic{device} has the IP Address of $ni
+c{ip}\n\tMask: $nic{mask}\n\tBroadcast: $nic{bcast}\n";
            }
            if (/^\s+ inet6 addr:\s*(\S+)/m) {
                $nic{ip6} = $1;
                #print "Device: $nic{device} also has IPv6 address of 
+$nic{ip6}\n";
            }
    }
  } elsif ($platform_in =~ /SunOS/) {
        $nics = qx |/sbin/ifconfig -a| or die("Can't get info from Sol
+aris ifconfig: $!\n");
        my @nics = split /(?<=\n)(?=\w)/, $nics;
        for (@nics) {
            my %nic;
            ($nic{device}) = $_ =~ /^(fjgi\d)\s/
                  or next;
            if (/\binet addr:([\d.]+)\s.+?:([\d.]+)\s.+?:([\d.]+)/) {
                $nic{ip}    = $1;
                $nic{bcast} = $2;
                $nic{mask}  = $3;
                print "Device: $nic{device} has the IP Address of $nic
+{ip}\n\tMask: $nic{mask}\n\tBroadcast: $nic{bcast}\n";
            }
            if (/^\s+ inet6 addr:\s*(\S+)/m) {
                $nic{ip6} = $1;
                print "Device: $nic{device} also has IPv6 address of $
+nic{ip6}\n";
            }
        }        
    }
    # => ENABLE DEBUGGING MODE
    use Data::Dumper;
    print Dumper(\%nic);
    #return (\%nic);
    
  # Do all printing here....
  # this statement needs work.
  # print "Device: $a\n\tIPv4: $b\n\tBcast: $c\n\tMask: $d\n\tIPv6: $e
+\n";
}
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